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Mar Del Plata, AR

Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico

I was initially a volunteer, then a central community figure, helping with permaculture projects, natural medicine development, and supporting plant medicine retreats for groups from all over the world. I lived on site and helped with gardening, beekeeping, medicine making, construction with natural materials, cooking, cleaning, and communications.

Puerto Maldonado, Peru

I lived and worked in an Amazonian conservation center dedicated to preserving and sharing indigenous wisdom and culture, ecological abundance and vitality, and healing practices among various people and their traditions and modalities. I was mostly involved in facilitating retreats, coordinating volunteer work, permaculture implementation and development.

Taray, Peru

I lived and worked in a community and educational center in the Sacred Valley of the Peruvian Andes that is dedicated to recovering ancestral wisdom, building sustainable communities, and forming leaders for manifesting positive change, alignment, and expansion among people as well as between humanity and nature. I particularly helped with work related to.

Santa Fe, New Mexico Area

I worked for a researcher who is interested in developing and implementing a monitoring and conservation protocol for white-tailed ptarmigan in New Mexico. I did backcountry fieldwork that consisted of surveying for, capturing, handling, tagging, and tracking individual birds throughout the Pecos Wilderness.

Colorado

I assisted a crew of white-tailed Ptarmigan technicians with capturing, banding, and monitoring individuals throughout various alpine habitats in Colorado as well as helping researchers with their work on pika, white-tailed prairie dogs, and black footed ferrets.

I assisted a crew of white-tailed Ptarmigan technicians with capturing, banding, and monitoring individuals throughout various alpine habitats in Colorado as well as helping researchers with their work on pika and black footed ferrets.

Aguada, Puerto Rico

4 weeks of work trade for food and accommodations which involved duties including front desk service, concierge, maintenance, dishwasher, housekeeping, laundry services, security, property technician, master gardener, handyman, beach patrol, construction services, guest services

Responsibilities included leading a banding crew to capture, band, and secure VHF collars on white tailed ptarmigan throughout alpine habitats of Colorado, assisting in coordinating and conducting backcountry mark/resight surveys for ptarmigan, performing nest checks and VHF monitoring on collared ptarmigan, and entering and reviewing data in Garmin.

Work involved leading a banding crew to capture, band, and secure VHF collars on white tailed ptarmigan throughout alpine habitats of Colorado, assisting in coordinating and conducting backcountry mark/resight surveys for ptarmigan, performing VHF monitoring on collared ptarmigan, assisting CPW researchers with plague vector control, and entering and.

Duties included leading a banding crew to capture and process white tailed ptarmiganthroughout alpine habitats of Colorado, assisting in coordinating and conducting resight surveys for ptarmigan, helping state researchers with plague vector control aimed at conserving white tailed prairie dog populations, performing peregrine falcon surveys to assess eyrie.

Responsibilities included performing occupancy surveys for white-tailed ptarmigan throughout alpine habitats of Colorado, performing white tailed prairie dog occupancy surveys, contributing to the Colorado breeding bird atlas, assisting CPW researchers with plague vector control, collecting information on burrowing owl locations, participating in fixed.

Northern Ontario, Canada

Duties involved assisting provincial and federal researchers as well as two MSc candidates with studies revolving around woodland caribou population decline that included tasks such as checking GPS clusters to locate wolf kill sites, performing rudimentary field necropsies, tracking wolves and their prey, performing scouting flights and aerial telemetry in.

Tuscumbia, Alabama

Responsibilities included setting up and maintaining small mammal trapping plots that consisted of 30 baited Sherman live traps, utilizing remote motion sensing wildlife cameras and scented lure to draw inand document the presence of various mammal species, setting up Anabat detectors that recorded ultrasonic frequencies from dusk until dawn in order to.

Grandjean, Idaho

Field work was directed at constructing “biofences” in order to manipulate wolf pack movements through applying wolf scent materials along transects in the territories of several packs which included individuals fitted with ARGOS collars, setting up and monitoring rub pad stations to elicit rolling activity and produce hair samples for genetic analysis.

Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada

Work involved finding fresh tracks and treeing cougars utilizing trained hunting hounds and working with a professional houndsman, assisting with tranquilizing, handling, and collecting biological data onsedated cats, tracking collared cats via VHF telemetry in order to download data from their GPS collars, and investigating clustered GPS locations in.

Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park, Alberta/Saskatchewan, Canada

Duties included tracking cougars via VHF telemetry in order to download data from their GPS collars, setting up and maintaining motion sensing wildlife cameras, investigating clustered GPS locations inorder to look for potential den or kill sites and perform rudimentary field necropsies, and entering and manipulating data utilizing Microsoft Excel and.

Moran, Wyoming

Responsibilities included searching for and collecting plant and fecal samples in various high altitude habitats, tracking moose via VHF telemetry, obtaining visual observations of moose cows to detect the presence of calves, collecting data on willow transects, collecting dropped collars, and organizing data in computer databases and handheld GPS units

Volcano, Hawaii

Performed field, office and lab tasks that included nest searches and censuses, executing various invertebrate trapping techniques within study plots, identifying target taxa collected in traps, enteringand proofing data in Microsoft Excel, organizing and maintaining field supplies, and assisting with other research efforts as needed